Late assemblymember was a dogged advocate for the freeway and early local supporter for the civil rights movement.
The late Assemblymember John Knox worked for close to two decades to gain the interstate designation and the federal funding that would follow.The recent well-meaning proposal by former Richmond Councilperson Nat Bates to rename the Knox Freeway by adding President Carter’s name is a bad idea.
The state Legislature’s naming of the project as the John T. Knox Freeway in 1980 was not just based on Knox’s advocacy for the Hoffman Freeway project but also based on his many accomplishments on behalf of Richmond infrastructure during his Assembly tenure. City leaders, including former Councilman Nat Bates, were very much involved in the advocacy. But as Knox contemporary, retired Assemblymember William Bagley, noted upon Knox’s death in 2017, “Jack traveled to Washington and almost single-handedly brought the extension of the 580 freeway through Richmond to San Rafael.”goes well beyond his dogged advocacy for the freeway.
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